Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 90 53
Rank change year-on-year -23 -37 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,255 1,941 2,578
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.37% 2.89% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 3.46% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 808 1,075 2,026
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £93,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,394 56,021 48,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 83.52% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,423 29,005 37,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,128 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 19 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -14 1,168 £75,000 +7.14% 1,205
London +8 684 £85,000 - 650
UK excluding London -64 528 £70,000 +7.69% 634
Work from Home -12 511 £72,000 +6.67% 896
North of England -25 199 £70,000 +14.37% 197
North West -11 125 £70,000 +12.00% 128
South East -80 116 £70,000 +3.70% 162
Midlands +25 73 £71,250 +9.62% 85
Yorkshire -31 60 £75,000 +22.54% 48
South West -49 53 £60,000 -4.00% 82
Scotland -44 47 £66,000 +1.54% 40
West Midlands +25 43 £70,000 +7.69% 52
East of England -14 36 £67,000 +3.08% 41
East Midlands +10 28 £76,000 +16.92% 32
North East -12 14 £50,000 -9.09% 21
Wales -8 7 £53,500 -2.73% 16
Northern Ireland -16 1 - - 17

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 38 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (2.31%) Confluence
3 28 (2.23%) Apache
4 27 (2.15%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (1.04%) CMS
7 12 (0.96%) Appian
7 12 (0.96%) JBoss
8 6 (0.48%) nginx
8 6 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.40%) IIS
10 4 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
12 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.080%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 15 (1.20%) Maya
2 9 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.32%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.64%) SAP FS
3 7 (0.56%) Endur
3 7 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.32%) Shopify
5 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.080%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.080%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.080%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 678 (54.02%) AWS
2 590 (47.01%) Azure
3 210 (16.73%) GCP
4 178 (14.18%) Serverless
5 147 (11.71%) SaaS
6 134 (10.68%) GitHub
7 122 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
9 77 (6.14%) Amazon S3
10 68 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
11 63 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
12 57 (4.54%) GitHub Actions
13 54 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
14 52 (4.14%) PaaS
15 45 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
16 41 (3.27%) Azure Service Bus
16 41 (3.27%) Power Platform
17 33 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
18 32 (2.55%) OpenShift
19 31 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.88%) Network Security
2 9 (0.72%) HTTP
3 8 (0.64%) Firewall
4 7 (0.56%) AMQP
5 5 (0.40%) WAN
6 3 (0.24%) Broadband
6 3 (0.24%) Internet
7 2 (0.16%) DNS
7 2 (0.16%) LAN
7 2 (0.16%) Multicast
7 2 (0.16%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.080%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.080%) MQTT
8 1 (0.080%) SNMP
8 1 (0.080%) SSL
8 1 (0.080%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (14.34%) NoSQL
2 166 (13.23%) PostgreSQL
3 154 (12.27%) MongoDB
4 133 (10.60%) SQL Server
5 92 (7.33%) Relational Database
6 63 (5.02%) DynamoDB
7 61 (4.86%) MySQL
8 51 (4.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 48 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (2.79%) Redis
11 34 (2.71%) Big Data
12 33 (2.63%) RDBMS
13 25 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
14 24 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
15 18 (1.43%) Power BI
16 16 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
17 14 (1.12%) Data Lake
18 13 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
19 11 (0.88%) Tableau
20 8 (0.64%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 175 (13.94%) Git
2 122 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 58 (4.62%) JUnit
4 57 (4.54%) JIRA
5 50 (3.98%) GitLab
6 47 (3.75%) Selenium
7 40 (3.19%) Mockito
8 33 (2.63%) JMeter
9 32 (2.55%) Cucumber
10 22 (1.75%) TeamCity
11 21 (1.67%) Maven
12 17 (1.35%) CircleCI
13 14 (1.12%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.96%) git-flow
14 12 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
14 12 (0.96%) Snyk
14 12 (0.96%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.88%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.88%) Postman
15 11 (0.88%) Robot Framework
General
1 407 (32.43%) Finance
2 345 (27.49%) Social Skills
3 199 (15.86%) Law
4 184 (14.66%) Banking
5 141 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 103 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
7 81 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 64 (5.10%) Marketing
9 61 (4.86%) Retail
10 51 (4.06%) Financial Institution
11 36 (2.87%) Games
12 31 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (2.39%) Billing
14 28 (2.23%) Back Office
15 25 (1.99%) Dutch Language
15 25 (1.99%) French Language
15 25 (1.99%) Legal
16 24 (1.91%) Telecoms
17 23 (1.83%) Front Office
18 18 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 426 (33.94%) Developer
2 283 (22.55%) Software Engineer
3 263 (20.96%) Senior
4 228 (18.17%) Lead
5 225 (17.93%) Architect
6 115 (9.16%) Java Developer
7 111 (8.84%) Solutions Architect
8 108 (8.61%) .NET Developer
9 106 (8.45%) Java Engineer
10 82 (6.53%) Java Software Engineer
10 82 (6.53%) Senior Developer
11 74 (5.90%) Full-Stack Developer
11 74 (5.90%) Senior Software Engineer
12 71 (5.66%) Lead Developer
13 55 (4.38%) Lead Software Engineer
14 53 (4.22%) Software Developer
15 47 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 41 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
17 40 (3.19%) C# Developer
17 40 (3.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (26.14%) .NET
2 279 (22.23%) RESTful
3 250 (19.92%) Spring
4 248 (19.76%) React
5 239 (19.04%) Kafka
6 208 (16.57%) Spring Boot
7 207 (16.49%) REST
8 146 (11.63%) AngularJS
9 133 (10.60%) .NET Core
10 125 (9.96%) Node.js
11 115 (9.16%) HTML
12 82 (6.53%) .NET Framework
13 80 (6.37%) CSS
13 80 (6.37%) Web Services
14 77 (6.14%) ASP.NET
15 72 (5.74%) Hibernate
16 71 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
17 67 (5.34%) ASP.NET Web API
18 65 (5.18%) Entity Framework
19 57 (4.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 372 (29.64%) Cloud Native
2 193 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (8.29%) Product Ownership
4 97 (7.73%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (3.59%) Algorithms
7 43 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
8 42 (3.35%) Virtual Team
9 36 (2.87%) Mobile App
10 35 (2.79%) Public Cloud
11 34 (2.71%) Distributed Architecture
12 33 (2.63%) Onboarding
13 31 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
14 28 (2.23%) Management Information System
15 27 (2.15%) Data Structures
16 24 (1.91%) AI Agents
17 22 (1.75%) Low-Code
18 19 (1.51%) Client/Server
19 17 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
20 16 (1.27%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.78%) Linux
2 32 (2.55%) Windows
3 15 (1.20%) Android
4 9 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.32%) Unix
7 2 (0.16%) CentOS
7 2 (0.16%) Debian
7 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.080%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (52.03%) Agile
2 597 (47.57%) CI/CD
3 505 (40.24%) DevOps
4 452 (36.02%) Software Engineering
5 265 (21.12%) Containerisation
6 250 (19.92%) AI
7 246 (19.60%) Full-Stack Development
8 233 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
9 231 (18.41%) Mentoring
10 202 (16.10%) Event-Driven
11 200 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 195 (15.54%) TDD
13 192 (15.30%) SDLC
14 173 (13.78%) Test Automation
15 170 (13.55%) Roadmaps
16 148 (11.79%) Fintech
17 146 (11.63%) Scrum
18 144 (11.47%) Computer Science
19 141 (11.24%) Architectural Patterns
20 139 (11.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 469 (37.37%) Java
2 340 (27.09%) C#
3 309 (24.62%) Python
4 303 (24.14%) SQL
5 256 (20.40%) JavaScript
6 184 (14.66%) TypeScript
7 66 (5.26%) Go
8 49 (3.90%) Kotlin
9 39 (3.11%) Shell Script
10 24 (1.91%) PHP
11 21 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 21 (1.67%) Scala
12 19 (1.51%) Rust
13 17 (1.35%) PowerShell
14 16 (1.27%) C++
15 14 (1.12%) C
15 14 (1.12%) Ruby
16 9 (0.72%) Bash
17 8 (0.64%) Bicep
18 6 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 176 (14.02%) Degree
2 108 (8.61%) Security Cleared
3 104 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 79 (6.29%) SC Cleared
5 65 (5.18%) AWS Certification
6 55 (4.38%) Master's Degree
7 39 (3.11%) Azure Certification
8 35 (2.79%) TOGAF Certification
9 34 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.35%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.64%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.64%) PMP
13 7 (0.56%) CISM
13 7 (0.56%) CISSP
14 5 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.40%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (7.17%) QA
2 32 (2.55%) GDPR
3 23 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.27%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.88%) NIST
5 11 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (0.88%) SLA
6 9 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.64%) IFRS
7 8 (0.64%) IFRS 17
7 8 (0.64%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.56%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.56%) EMIR
9 5 (0.40%) SEPA
10 4 (0.32%) NCSC
11 3 (0.24%) WCAG
12 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 390 (31.08%) Docker
2 14 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.16%) HDFS
6 2 (0.16%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.16%) vSphere
7 1 (0.080%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 417 (33.23%) Kubernetes
2 175 (13.94%) Terraform
3 58 (4.62%) Grafana
4 40 (3.19%) Ansible
5 33 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 31 (2.47%) Kibana
7 18 (1.43%) Argo
8 16 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.64%) Mesos
10 5 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.32%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.32%) Puppet
12 2 (0.16%) Istio
12 2 (0.16%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.080%) Nagios
Vendors
1 196 (15.62%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.26%) Oracle
3 34 (2.71%) Guidewire
4 30 (2.39%) Splunk
5 29 (2.31%) Google
6 26 (2.07%) Dynatrace
6 26 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.83%) SAP
8 20 (1.59%) BiZZdesign
9 19 (1.51%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.12%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.04%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.04%) VMware
12 11 (0.88%) Black Duck
12 11 (0.88%) UiPath
13 10 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
13 10 (0.80%) Duck Creek
13 10 (0.80%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.80%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.80%) ServiceNow